Preserving file history across a component move?
Hi,
We're looking at refactoring a bunch of projects into various components, and I was wondering if there was a way to move an entire project from one component to another and still preserve the file history. Deleting the project from one component and adding it to another component is a solution, but I feel like there is probably something better out there.... Thoughts? Thanks! Mike |
Accepted answer
If you have loaded the repository workspace, in the Eclipse IDE, right click on the project and select Team -> Move in Repository.
Michael Thompson selected this answer as the correct answer
Comments Oh wow, awesome. I feel stupid for not seeing that.
Geoffrey Clemm
commented Jul 30 '13, 9:53 a.m.
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Note that when moving a project from a source to a destination component, the pre-move history remains in the source component, but a link is created from the new post-move version of each file/folder created in the destination component back to the pre-move version in the source component. Also note that if you still have a "pre-move" workspace/stream that shows the project still in the source component, if you check-in changes to the project into the source component, you cannot "accept/deliver" those changes to the destination component. So it is best to defer moving projects between components until you only have one workspace/stream actively modifying that project.
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